Welcome to Your Classroom!


This is the website where we'll write, edit, collaborate, and publish our works.

Thank you, sixth graders, for a fun—but quick—three weeks of writing, reading, sharing, and laughing. Feel free to continue the wiki. I will check back periodically. Have a great summer and good luck in the new school year.


Ted & Claudia
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Here are some previous YWC wikis:
Wiki-Tiki-Tembo
CalStatweens
CalStatweens2010
CalStatweens2011




The 10 Wiki Commandments


(and/or friendly suggestions)

I. You have the right to create new pages with your work*, whether it’s an assignment or your own, independent writing.

II. You have the right to hyperlink. You should create links to all your pieces on your “Me Page.” If there is a link* to an outside webpage^ that somehow explains or enriches your work, go ahead and create a link.

III. You should use English unless the poem or dialogue calls for another language. Yes, avoid ‘im’ or text speak unless it's vital to the piece.

IV. You have the right to edit other people’s work, as long as you do not change the meaning of what they intended to say. Let’s help each other create work without the distractions of misspellings and grammar issues. Also, don't "graffiti" on other people's pages.

V. You have the right to comment on other students’ work, but please be kind. Sharing your work to the public takes courage. Be helpful and constructive with your criticism; don’t tear their work apart or insult them for using the wrong form of ‘there.’

VI. Do not put work on the wiki or links to pages that will be offensive to other students or Ted.

VII. Do not use the wiki to slam other students or YWC staff.

VIII. Mr. D. can see all and has the right to remove work or students from the wiki.

IX. Occasionally, the heads of the Young Writers' Camp will be on the wiki looking at your brilliance. I invite some adults to our wiki so that they can see how smart you are, and, hopefully, this will lead other teachers to use student-centered technologies like this in the future.

X. The wiki is yours, so use it to create, to aid, to inspire.

  • School appropriate

^ not Facebook, please.